Portable electric lamp



C. H. BISSELL.

PORTABLE ELECTRIC LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED .IULYIS, 1911.

Patented Aug. 22, 1922.

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GARE H. BISSELL, 01E SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR '10 CRO'USE-HINDS COMPANY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YO, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PORTABLE ELECTRIC LAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 11922.

Application filed. July 13', 1917. Serial No. 180,321.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL H. BISSELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Portable Electric Lamp, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object able electric lamp which is particularly simple and compact in construction and highly eflicient and durable in use, and it consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, referenceis had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Fi re 1 is an elevation of a lamp embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical section thereof.

Figure 3 is a cross sectional view on line 3 3, Fig. 1.

This portable electric lamp comprises, generally, a body including a base, and a hollow handle extending rearwardly from the base and having its passage opening through the base, the handle having a wire opening, a lamp socket located in the hollow handle and being exposed in the base, and a lamp carried by the socket and projecting in front of the base.

1 designates the base of the body, and 2 is the hollow handle which preferably extends axially rearwardly from the base. The base is cup-shaped in form and includes a bottom and an annular wall 3 projecting from the bottom.

The passage of the handle 2 opens through the bottom of the base and an inwardly extending flange 4 is provided around the passage where it opens into the base for supporting the lamp socket.

.5 is the lamp socket located in the handle, it bein tion. forms no part of this invention, further description is deemed unnecessary.

The lamp socket 5 is also formed with a flange 6 opposed to the outer face of the flange, and the socket is secured in position by fastening members as screws 7 extending through the flanges 6 and 4: and

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preferably of two part eonstrucs this feature of the lamp socket an interposed washer or gasket 8. Owing to the flange 4 the screws 7 are located entirely within the base and the handle.

As here shown, the handle is formed with a base portion 9 slightly wider than the major part thereof and the flange 4 is below or Within the base portion. 10 is the lamp provided with a suitable plug extending into the socket 5. 11 is a globe enclosing the lamp, the globe being carried by the annular wall 3, and. being here shown as connected'thereto by screw threads. The lamp is usually provided with a cage 12 around the globe 11 and ineluding a ring or band 13 at its upper end which encircles the wall 3 and which is secured thereto by a suitable lock. The cage is provided with a hook 1 1 by means of which the lamp may be hung up.

The lock'here illustrated includes a lever 15 pivoted at 16 to the ring and having a lug which interlocks in an annular groove 17 in the wall 3/ The lever 15 is held in its lockedposition by any suitable means as the screw 18 threading through a fixed lug 19 on the ring and having a portion extending into a hole in a lug 20 on the lever. The construction and operation of the locking means forms no part of this invention.

Owing to the hollow handle, and the lamp socket or the receptacle located therein, and the arrangement of the lamp socket relatively to the base and the handle,'a particularly simple and compact construction is provided.

What I claim is:

Angelectric hand lamp comprising a .discoidal base, and a hollow handle extending rearwardly from the base, the passage of the handle opening through the baseand the base having an internal annular flange extending into the passage of the handle where it opens through'the'base, a lamp socket located in the handle and secured to the front face of the internal annular flan e, a lamp supported in the socket, and a glo e carried by the base, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, this 10th day of July, 1917.

CARL H. BISSELL. 

